St. Augustine Arrival Day (10/19)

So far, I feel the same about Ruth's departures and arrivals as I do when I fly, take offs and landings are the most fraught with possible complications.  This was only our 3rd departure and while we have already developed extensive interior and exterior checklists for all the tasks that must be completed it still seems to take longer than we had hoped to get on the road.  I am confident that this will impove over time, but at this point, it feels like we are trying to launch the space shuttle each time we move. 

There was a fair amount of debris on the top of the rig due to trees and birds.  Mike was on a ladder cleaning them for a while before we could bring in the slides.  Also, just was we were ready to depart, one of the large back driver's side bay doors did not want to shut/lock.  Mike was able to take care of it though and we pulled our of our site and headed toward the entrance to hook up the Jeep for towing.  We are not yet too confident on hooking up the tow vechicle in the site.  Upon departure from Three Flags, there were definitely some trees that should be trimmed which unfortunately scraped across the top of the coach.  I figure this will happen a million more times as we travel.  

The drive to St. Augustine was uneventful. We made a fuel stop in Savannah on the way up.  We have stopped at two Travel America Truck stops on this trip and used our EFS Fuel Discounnt card, more on that later.

In St. Augustine we booked our 8 night stay at Compass RV Resort. We were in site #148. It was a lovely, very well run, Covid responsible resort.  A few of the turns within the campround felt a little tight, but again Mike did a great job weaving through the park to our spot.  Our entire red pavered site was spacious and even had trees for Mike's new hammock. 

We settled in for nice long stay, not worried about moving again for a few days. We have not been to St. Augustine for several years, so this gave us a great base from which to explore.